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In winter, the wood remains naked and
dumb, but life is stills there, hidden.
Snow and dead leaves cover the seeds.
Sedentary birds haven't got nests now
there nor shelter from cold among the branches.
Many of them die. There are some mammals, like
wild boar, that moves looking for food.

THE FOREST

In spring, the seeds germinate, the sap climbs up de trees, the flowers bud, the leaves come out, the flowers cover the land...The song of the cuckoo and the oriole whitch defence its territory, wakes up the wood. The birds that had migrated come back and live on insects, who reproduce fast.

When summer arrives, the fruits rippen and the wood becomes shady and cool. Young animals, bornt in spring, get stronger befor winter comes. Bees and bumblebees suck "nèctar" and fertilize flowers in order to get fruits and seeds.

When autumn comes, the trees turn into brown, yellow, red. Humidity favours the creation of mushrooms. Animals that hibernate put on weight before going to sleep, like the dormouse: the pupies bornt in spring, have been eating berries during autumn, and now stuff themselves with chestnuts, blackberries, soots, ants, strawberries, wallnuts, acorns and hazelnuts.
LIFE IN AN OAK

A tree is a good example of the great interdependance between animal and vegetable life.

This oak seems very quiet, but it's full of life: during the day we can hear the song of birds like the magpie, or the jay, the humming of the insects, like the oak beatle, the running of rabbits and the grunt of some mammals like the wary badger, very difficult to see, who, shy, goes out of his warren, a real underground labyrinth.
During the night it becomes misterious and silent; the dormouse and the squirrel sleep in their nest made of little branches and upholsted with moss, but many animals, invisibles during the day, go out of their hiding place; all the birds are asleep, except the night birds of prey, like the owl, which flies without making any noise, thanks to his smoothy feathers; the hedgedog puffs and pants and searhes snails and worms among the dead leaves.

The leaves, the bark, the acorns and the roots are eaten and attacked by different animals, and many of these animals are, at the same time, prey of other ones. When they die, they are destroyed by bacteria and returned to the soil. They form an ecosystem where each one have a different role. Nothing is lost.